Kenny wrote:
Spent some time today with a 4 year old Packard Bell laptop with similar
specs ie: Intel I5, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD and it seems faster than this
one, especially start up time. The only real difference is that one's
running Win 7! Since Win 10 will be free I'll wait till then, format C:
partition and try Win 7 on it before installing Win 10.
Question 1 to group: What's the best way to compare the 3 OS to
determine if installed OS makes any significant difference in performance?
Question 2: This has a customised Acer BIOS and can only use Acer
drivers, can I flash BIOS with a generic one and install Intel drivers
or should I forget that idea?

Kenny

Windows 7 is the best of the bunch. I'll save
you the trouble of testing it. I bought another
copy of Windows 7 about three weeks ago, backing
up my opinion with my wallet.

Both Win8 and Win10 have a 1024x768 VESA driver,
for when no graphics driver is available. This
will allow you to test your laptop if you want.

I'm signed up with the Windows Insider program,
and so I can keep updating 10240 build, as the
new (post-RTM) builds come in. That's how you
test, for better or worse, the new Windows 10.
All it costs me, is a hard drive, and a *lot*
of downloading. The 10240 build was supposed to
be distributed to OEMs, as an ingredient to making
their copy of Win10 for new computers.

Paul